Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Vijay on Saturday suspended the Deputy Jail Superintendent of Theni District Jail. Besides, orders have also been given to transfer many jail employees. This step has been taken a few days after the incident of 17 prisoners escaping from the jail. According to the report of ANI news agency, Deputy Jail Superintendent N. posted in Theni from August 2024. Ramalingam has been dismissed from service for failure in prison administration and security monitoring. A total of 17 employees have been suspended and a departmental inquiry has been ordered against them.
prisoners had escaped from jail
Vijay also directed that tight security arrangements and surveillance should be ensured in all the jails in Tamil Nadu. News agency PTI on Thursday quoted police as saying that 17 prisoners who escaped from jail have been recaptured, and the administration is starting the process of shifting them to high-security jails across the state.
Meanwhile, on October 20, two prisoners had also escaped from a high-security prison in Puzhal near Chennai. Seven police teams searched for two days, after which he was caught. However, these two incidents of jail escape within a week spurred the Tamil Nadu government into action. The state government on Thursday transferred Director General of Police (DGP) of Prisons and Correctional Services, Dr Sandeep Rai Rathore.
Prisoners escaped from jail by pretending to be a fake medical emergency
According to PTI, 17 inmates staged a fake medical emergency at Theni district jail on Monday night. They made it look as if one of them was having an epileptic fit. When a guard came to help by opening the door of his cell, the prisoners overpowered him and beat him.
After this the prisoners took the keys of the main gate and opened the jail door and ran towards the nearby forests. Then he boarded a motorcycle from Aranjanaipudur area and left for Uthampalayam. The escaping prisoners sought a phone from an unknown person in Ammachipuram and contacted their comrades, who provided them with money, clothes and vehicles.
17 special police teams, five special task force units and four battalions of Tamil Nadu special police were deployed to trace these prisoners. Police said special drones were used during the day to search the dense forests and locate suspicious hideouts. Five of these prisoners were arrested and produced before a judicial magistrate on Tuesday evening, after which they were sent to judicial custody till November 10.
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